avoid the risk of infection by ensuring your pork is properly cooked to at least 80°C for 10 minutes to kill all tapeworm eggs. Lower temperatures work too, but require longer cooking times.

“The biggest risk factors for a tapeworm infection include consuming raw or undercooked meats like pork and beef or fish. Sadly, this includes one of my favorites — sushi. But for the ...

Pork can carry taenia solium larvae, a parasitic tapeworm. After eating infected pork, the larvae get into body tissues where they form cysts—a condition called cysticercosis. The larvae can ...